Egbert h



R. H. LONG.

Gun-Carriage Patented Aug.- 4, 1863.

vwork on slides.

Unirse Starts PATENT Ustica,

. ROBERT- H. ,LONG, on

rninnonnrnm, rniinsvnvnnm Josera anion, on Ninv vonk, N. v

, nssicnon' rro `atiene1vsulnurin.sansa/wilma cua-CARRIAGE@ u Specification 'forming part'ol' Letters Patent'lllo.y 39,439, dared August 4, lolli.

To @ZZ whom itinay concern Be' it known' that I', ROBERT the `city of Philadelphia, `in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have in- I to a slot in itsvrespective bearing E.

vented a neuL and useful Improvement in Gun- Carrie-ges; and I do hereby .declare that the H; Lone, lof

l, and 'eachis arranged to work anti-friction rollers, aa, litted to its respective box E, and a third anti-frietion roller between J J are levers arranged to work horizont ;on fixed fulcra c c', which attachthelr inner earibllowing is a full, clear, and exact descript ends to'one of the crosstinibers, D, ofthe tion of the axle boxes.

Similar letters of spending. parts inth The' principal obj 'prevent guns used with the earriag Working the gunl that when there is no strainA on the said tackles the body of the 'carriage rests directly upon the'bed, with the wheels free, but'that by the act of hauling Ion the tackles to run the gun in or out the weight oi' the gun and carria wheels, so that the carriage will run freely.' running on the slides A A.

'Itl also consists in combi-ning the aXle-beartackles L L are pulled to dr ings with the carriage; and tackles of a novel system of double Wedges and levers.

To enable others skilled in the art to make ntion, .I will proceed vto describe its construction and operation.

and use my inve constituting the C C D D Works. struction which in an opening resemble two wed the saine, reference being had to theaceompanying drawings, iorming part of this speeiiication, in Whic Figurel 'is a side view of a gun, with its carriage and bed, having my improvement applied. Fig. 2 is a plan of the carriage and bed. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of one of reference indicate correect of my invention is to on shipboard from-getting adrift either While in use or at any other time, and thereby injuring the crew; and to this end it consists in so combining the axle-bcarings bed on which The carriage is isl usual for carriages which F F are the axle-boxes bolted to the sides of the carriage, and E E are the axle-bearings iitted -to slide' vertically Within the said4 boxes. G-G are the axles, and H H `the Wheels, the latter arranged to runon the slides A A in the `usual manner.

\ I I are the double Wedges, one iittedtoWork` provided for it through each axle-box in. a direction parallel with the sides These double Wedges each ges united at theirpoints ory smaller ends, as shown at the rear end of Fig.

sides C C carnage,

e several figures.

the bed.

ge is brought upon the forward, the

the carriage of the conextremity by one of two sets of K K, and tackles L, with the ontboarden the bed,and by one oftwo sets of K K', and tackles L', with the inboard endet" The tackles L L are used to riage ont for iii-ing, and those L L to runit back for loading, and when power is 'app to either. pair ot tackles for this purpose e and with the tackles for: taeklesiirstactupon iheleversJ Jin suehmanner that the Wedges act between their respect ive rollers, a ab, to raise the carriage from the bedA and bring the Whole Weight of both earriage and gun upon the axles and Wheels; hence bythe continued pull on th .carriage is caused to move easily, the wh back Wedge ofpairs is brought into action, and when two tackles L L are pulled the front each pair is brought into action. pull on the tackles vceases and the levers and A A are the slides, and B B the transonis, Wedges are left free, the inclined surfaces of the wedges, which'have been bearingon rollers b b, are caused by the weight of the g and carriage to run down on the said rollers till the body of the carnage comes to abearing on Vthe slides A A, and the carriagebecoines riage, and passing' through openings in.

of the carriage,

'Each of these levers is conn of the carriage, by two rods, (l d, with the two double wedges I I on its respective side of the and each is connected at its outer puliey-blocks,

one in each s run the When the v movable by any ordinaryT agency, so that ether run out for firing o r y `and'in either ease there is v, ing adrift, as its carriage is never free i from the bed and resting on the wheels,but whileythe power is applied to the Ytackles to run itin or out. is "off the "tackles, the highest points in lower inclined surfaces' of t to'say, the points of j unction of the two Wedges two , I), titted ally ide. ected,just outside pulley-blocks,

lied

and e tackles the eels two a-W the carriage each of the fourv When the strain he wedges-that is of eaehpair-are directly over the centers of l gun that when there is no strain on the said the rollersb b, and the wheels rest upon the bed, tackles thebody of the carriage will rest direct' with no weight upon them but that of the axles 1y on the bed with its wheels free; but that by andthe bearings E E. To provide for the the act of hauling on the tacklesK tol run the I* locking of the wedges in the above-mentioned gun in or ont the weight of the gun and car'- positions, there are hinged to the sides of the riage is brought on the. wheels, so that thecarriage two stops, e e, one on each side,which carriage will run freely, substantially as'hereinl occupy such positions as 'to be capable of bedescribed.

' Vingvdepressedbetween/the Yendsof the llOQ d 2. The employment, for combining the axlent their j unctionwith their respective lever J. bearin'gswitlthe rza'irifzxgeV andr=tacklesof a Y yMy invention .might also be applied to guns novel system of double Wedges, I I, and; levers i'or'orticationsmountedonplatforms or beds.- J J, applied to oper'atel substantially as and Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire ,for the purpose herein described. l f. l to secure by Letters Patent, is v Witnesses: ROBT. H. LONG. 1. So combining the axle-bearings E E withV SAML. BLINN,

the carriage and with tackles for vvorking the ROBT. L. BEAN EY. 

